From the Paris papers of Wednesday evening, received this morn-
ing, it appears that Louis Pump lost no time in summoning the Chamber of Peers again to resolve itself into a court of justice for the trial of the new assassin. PERSIL, on Wednesday, laid a Royal ordi- nance to that effect on the table ; and the Chamber immediately went. into a secret Committee to hear " the requisitory" of the Attorney. General.
Marshal SOULT took his seat in the Chamber of Peers, on Wed- nesday, looking remarkably well. It is stated that he shook hands cordially with General Fleetest:Le, and smiled coldly on the Duke DE BROGLIE : pregnant indications ! The Chamber of Deputies have reelected DUPIN as their President he bad 195 votes; LAFITTE 24; HualaNa 36; and four other candi- dates 21 among them. Some additional particulars are given of the persons accused of the attempt on the King's life. It is not doubted that the man on whom the pistol was found is he who fired it. M. PENE, a gentle- man of property, standing next to him, immediately seized his arm' the assassin struggled to escape ; but PI:NE 1041 him till the police came to his assistance. Four seconds before the shot was fired, the King put his head and bust out of the window through which the ball
passed, to salute the National Guards. The pistol contained either two balls, one of them cut into two, or three balls. One fragment went through the front window, behind the coachman ; another entered the back-seat cushion, an inch or two from the place wlurre the Prince DE JOINVII.LE was sitting; and a third, it is supposed, broke the lantern to the left of the coachman. The assassin war stripped immediately on his arrival at the guard-house ; and was found to have—the itch ! There were some papers of no importance, and a small quantity of tobacco in his pockets, but no money. He isof middle stature, and muscular ; and sonic persons guess his age at about twenty-two or twenty-three. His countenance exhibits a mixture of brutality and firmness. He refused to give his name; but admitted his guilt, laughed contemptuously when its enormity was mentioned, and declared that he had no accomplices. The name of the maker of his hat was found in it : that hatter left Paris some months ago, but he can be easily traced. Several persons pretended to recognize the prisoner : some said he was a journeyman saddler, by name MEUNIER; others that he was a daquer at one of the theatres, and that his name was CHANTRUT. On Tuesday night he was removed to the Con- ciergerie. Other arrests have taken place ; but one of the persons-ar- rested on Tuesday has been released, as it was proved to be only by accident that he was standing near the man who fired at the King.
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